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Small signaling peptides mediate plant adaptions to abiotic environmental stress

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Peptide-receptor complexes activate distinct downstream regulatory networks to mediate plant adaptions to abiotic environmental stress.

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Plants are constantly exposed to various adverse environmental factors; thus they must adjust their growth accordingly. Plants recruit small secretory peptides to adapt to these detrimental environments. These small peptides, which are perceived by their corresponding receptors and/or co-receptors, act as local- or long-distance mobile signaling molecules to establish cell-to-cell regulatory networks, resulting in optimal cellular and physiological outputs. In this review, we highlight recent advances on the regulatory role of small peptides in plant abiotic responses and nutrients signaling.

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We do apologize to those whose great work was not cited. We would like to thank other lab members for their critical reading and comments on the manuscript. This work is supported by a starting fund from Jiangxi Agricultural University (9232308314) to HBH. We also acknowledge the EMBO for supporting JH with a long-term fellowship (ALTF 217-2021).

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  1. College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi, Nanchang, 330045, China

    Heping Xie, Wen Zhao, Weilin Li & Huibin Han

  2. College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, 712100, Yangling, China

    Yuzhou Zhang

  3. Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Institute of Experimental Botany and Palacký University, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Šlechtitelů 27, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Jakub Hajný

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Xie, H., Zhao, W., Li, W. et al. Small signaling peptides mediate plant adaptions to abiotic environmental stress. Planta 255, 72 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-022-03859-6

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